Keep in mind, we were playing against 2 easy AIs, and they kept us on our toes as beginners.

I tended to mass up in large grade fleets, but I sacrificed a lot of fine control for that. Thankfully, the fleet mechanic really works and they do a good job of fighting on their own. There are just so many ways to automate what would be dull things to do in the game.

That said, next game I'll probably break down my ships into smaller fleets focused around only 1 or 2 cap ships, then work on attacking more often and using more specialized ship and research combos.

That said, I do have a small gripe in that the ships and 3 races aren't all that different gameplay-wise. Very much like total annihilation difference where you basically have those same roles filled with units that do pretty similar damage.

Oh, and this was just a 2v2 locked teams. Next game it'd be interesting to try a larger, maybe random map with more teams. Depending on how many join us in the next game, we could get teams of 3v3v3 or 4v4.

I saw you guys were playing last night. I think I jumped into ICO about 10 minutes too late.

ICO Name = Lockdown or LD (can't remember)

Is there a spectator mode that can be enabled via the game setup? I was hoping I could come into the game and at least watch you guys if not join halfway through, which I don't think is an option. Unfortunately, I think games are "locked" once started. Huge bummer.

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LD

"Let your enemies fear, for a harlequin of the Laughing God dances at your side."

Yeah... I want to play... but mediacom has been down for most of the day, so not sure if I will be able to make it. May need to talk with the university computer folks so that I can register my new computer.

Played one complete 3v3 game with Kato and Evilekim tonight and we wiped em easy. So we started another with 3 vs 2 teams of 2. We're cleaning house again and I have a fleet of 16 cap ships ready to unleash some pain on the remaining AI's.

Now that he has the info you might want to edit that out. Lots of vent servers, including one I use over at Gamerswithjobs, have been getting griefers that hop on their vent servers and play loud sounds into the mic and just generally act like assholes.

Their persistance is surprising too. If you don't ban them outright then and there they'll come back and keep right on doing it.

In your defense, you did get stuck in a solar system with 1 hard AI and 1 normal AI, while me and Jarrod only had to deal with 1 AI.

I'm up for another game tonight. But I'm just about to head out to buy some furniture and grab food, should be back in 1-2 hours (around 5-6pm PST). I wanted to try some different early game tactics and different fleet compositions.

I also want to try some versus games against actual humans.

Say, maybe we could play with us as a team against other humans?

By the way, cap ships push back culture by a significant amount, I think the culture/support battlecruiser does it the best, so if you really want to colonize a planet and some lingering culture is preventing you, park your cap ships in that space for a bit to claim it.

I really think they need another sub-selection window, not just the big empire tree with its tiny icons. But something like in Warcraft 3, Company of Heroes, etc... where you can more easily make sub-selections within the currently selected ships/fleet.

My in-game name is Mattc0m. I'm pretty pro at this game already... love it. I'm generally not one for RTS games online, either, but these more epicly scaled RTS games (Supreme Commander, Sins of a Solar Empire) I'm really digging online.